menu
(menjuː )
Word forms: menus
1. countable noun [usually singular] A2
In a restaurant or café, or at a formal meal, the menu is a list of the food and drinks that are available.
A waiter offered him the menu.
Even the most elaborate dishes on the menu were quite low on calories.
Synonyms: bill of fare, tariff [mainly British], set menu, table d'hôte
2. countable noun
A menu is the food that you serve at a meal.
Try out the menu on a few friends.
The menu is all-important. Every component of every meal should create contrasts.
3. countable noun A2
On a computer screen, a menu is a list of choices. Each choice represents something that you can do using the computer.
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Collocations:
change the menu design a menu menu offering menu offers menu option menu planning menu screen menu selection menu varies navigate the menu on-screen menu plan a menu printed menu regular menu restaurant menu sample menu seasonal menu serve a menu simple menu special menu standard menu start menu study a menu three-course menu typical menu varied menu vegetarian menu weekly menu à la carte menu
Or you could change the menu by stealth, choosing healthier versions of traditional meals.
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It was fantastic to change the menu from bread and ham or pasta.
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He even persuaded the club to change the menu in the canteen.
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They were already sourcing fish from there, so it made sense, and continue to change the menu sometimes five times a day depending on what the boats bring in.
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It might be a bit late to change the menu for something simpler, but it's worth considering for next year.
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Let them design the menu and creatively set the table.
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Design your menu with dishes that you know and match the criteria.
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Essentially, people tell us how much they want to spend [85 or 125] and give us restrictions that they don't like this or that, and we design the menu.
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Both enjoyed designing the menu.
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He works as the menu designer for restaurants that are owned by or which have hired his father's company to design their menus.
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From a typical brasserie menu offering everything from breakfast through snacks to full-scale lunches and dinners, not forgetting afternoon tea.
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There's an exciting, unfamiliar menu offering 'strange flavoured rabbit', 'fire-exploded kidney flower' and 'fragrant and spicy duck's tongues'.
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And one which has a menu offering 'venison carpaccio, beetroot, nasturtium, oak moss and sheep sorrel'.
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From a menu offering new options along with old favourites.
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By night, they lie on plastic sheets, beside a menu offering a selection of fluorescent lubricants, looking at themselves in mirrors on the ceiling.
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The menu offers 'a dining experience like no other'.
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The seasonal menu offers saltmarsh lamb and local seafood.
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That said, with every new run, its menu offers enough novelty to keep us interested.
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A vigorous menu offers regional ravioli, stuffed with cheese and parsley, and toothsome with a lamb shank.
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The starter menu offers spicecrusted, wild, softshell crab, a plaice fillet cone with grape and yoghurt rice.
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A test mode display would appear, and a menu option would allow the operator to choose the addresses for the devices.
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Existing shops would be urged to provide healthier menu options.
The Sun
First, though, he has to look at wedding venues, menu options and seating plans.
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Patrons who do not wish to design their meals from scratch choose a menu option, by which they substitute ingredients in and out of a menu choice.
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Critics have slammed some of its more indulgent menu options such as 'triple meat' or 'triple cheese'.
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Earlier this year it also acquired a company that develops menu planning and nutritional management software.
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Weekly shopping and menu planning has meant households have struggled for fridge space for weeks and retailers are braced for a run on larger appliances.
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Over five years, expert support with organic gardening, cookery, sourcing, menu planning and nutrition education will help to establish centres of food excellence that share knowledge with other schools.
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However, it had mitigated higher costs by one percentage point with menu planning and other cost-saving measures.
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Residents are responsible for all household duties, including: menu planning, budgeting, shopping, cooking, cleaning, yard work, and home maintenance.
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Additionally, the player can make use of the cooking system from the menu screen.
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She can be unlocked by paying 70 orange shields on the menu screen.
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Players had to memorize it and enter it at the menu screen when they wanted to continue the season.
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This involves a short statement visible at the menu screen.
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Other features available the menu screen include options to change you team line-up, formation and tactics; all vital when creating a successful team.
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There's a daily roast and a 'fast service' menu selection on weekdays.
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Customers can browse the menu selection and add items to meals to see per-ingredient nutrition information.
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Research has covered a wide range of topics from menu selection to direct manipulation and from user satisfaction to computer rage.
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A menu selection keyset, about the size and shape of a contemporary calculator, connected to it using a ribbon cable.
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Miniature force transducers are used as additional controls on joysticks for menu selection functions.
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His menu varies daily, though fish and chips (10.50) and burgers (11) are a constant.
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The menu varies from kangaroo and shark to squirrel and snake.
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The menu varies by region.
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The user can also use the arrow keys to navigate the menu.
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This allows users to navigate the menus akin to using a laptop touch pad.
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If the user holds down an arrow button on the remote while navigating the menu, the menu scrolls by more quickly.
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Channels can also be renamed or deleted, either in an on-screen menu or with external software.
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The topics discussed were chosen from an on-screen menu, after which the interviewee selected questions by number from an unseen list.
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You navigate on-screen menus by moving your hand around and holding it still to select the various options.
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Fortunately this versatility didn't make the player hard to use, thanks to simple on-screen menus and an unusually decent remote control.
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Navigation tools such as on-screen menus are not included.
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Go online, plan your menu, print the recipes and use them as a shopping list.
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This style of eating can be a real problem if, instead of planning your menu, you rely instead on grabbing anything that's available.
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It says a well-known celebrity chef has planned the menu, but that was only on the outbound flight.
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Chefs planned the menus months ago and sent out shopping lists so all ingredients are locally sourced.
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They spend that night planning the menu.
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As well as the printed menu, there are several daily specials.
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Tell them about an allergy or intolerance and you'll get your own specially printed menu at breakfast.
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If you are in any doubt where the ingredients originated, read the daily printed menu.
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On a typical transatlantic 707 charter, there were individually printed menus.
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A brasserie can be expected to have professional service, printed menus, and, traditionally, white linenunlike a bistro which may have none of these.
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There was a regular menu plus a daily choice from around the world.
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There were half a dozen things on the regular menu to tempt us back and the varied specials made ordering an even tougher conundrum.
The Sun
What made it worse was the crab was not on the regular menu but, rather, flagged up on the specials board.
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In addition to their regular menu, the company offers a nutritional menu, allergen menu, and vegetarian menu.
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Its menu there includes regular menu burgers and fried chicken but not side items like baked potatoes and pat bing soo.
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The alternative starter on the restaurant menu was wild mushroom ravioli with truffle sauce.
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I saw it on a restaurant menu recently.
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A restaurant menu represented one dinner out per week, which cost $45 per month and $540 per year.
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Have you had something really special, lately, whether from a deli, a restaurant menu or a small food business?
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It includes the restaurant menu from their first date, the room key from their first trip away and everyday pictures of themselves, including sleeping, cooking and watching films.
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Ask to see a sample menu and check out the dining room at mealtimes.
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After dinner (sample menu: chicken, rice, satay sauce), they wind down with an improving documentary or listen to a talk by employees or former fellows.
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Later, he prepared a sample menu which listed affordable food purchases for those whose welfare rates had been reduced.
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There are handy hints, sample menus, shopping lists and useful tips on preparing and freezing.
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On the website, you will find all the information you need to help you choose where to eat, with 360-degree views, sample menus, diners' reviews and much more.
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The seasonal menu offers saltmarsh lamb and local seafood.
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The chef's sources are all named on the seasonal menu, with many local suppliers.
The Sun
The big seasonal menu includes local meats, fish and cheeses.
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The seasonal menu changes weekly and meals are cooked freshly to order.
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There was no drinks licence and an uncompromising seasonal menu of two or three dishes.
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Restaurants that list calories on their menus serve healthier dishes than those that do not, a study has found.
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What's wrong with having no interest in over-attentive waiters or a theatrical nine-course tasting menu served on slivers of slate, even if you could afford it?
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The old garden apartment has been transformed into a bar, lounge and restaurant serving a menu of small tasting plates, such as squid, scallops and chicken wings, to share.
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The 25-hectare farm blooms with olive and fruit trees; expect to see their bounty on the restaurant menu served in the converted barn or on the terrace.
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Meal service features three-course meals and a cheese service, or an express menu served shortly after takeoff.
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It's a simple menu with a handful of starters and mains.
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What you need are young, energetic, semi-trained cooks who can replicate a simple menu.
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The main restaurant, to the left of the entrance, has a simple menu with five starters and seven mains.
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The formula was classic and never felt dated: a simple menu, fair prices, no bookings and a buzzy atmosphere.
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It also comes pre-loaded with a host of ready-made statements which you can access through a simple menu system.
The Sun
The head chef has prepared a special menu for you.
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The four-year-old pet was given an en-suite cabin with a sea view and fed a special menu of salmon, grilled chicken and fresh milk.
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He can spell out these commands by focusing his right eye on letters and short commands from a special menu bar on his tracking monitor.
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Hundreds of venues are involved, offering foodies everything from special menus to masterclasses.
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There will also be special menus based on those aboard famous great liners of the past.
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Any additional toppings requested will be charged at standard menu price.
The Sun
Côte will be offering its standard menu, and you won't be able to book tables on the terrace.
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You would need a nutritionist permanently on site and working out a standard menu would probably cost over 1,000.
The Sun
The opener ends with customers choosing between his dishes and the standard menu.
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Typically, the restaurants within a chain are built to a standard format through architectural prototype development and offer a standard menu and/or services.
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This gave the player time to open the start menu and prepare for the battle.
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Tapping this key invokes the operating system's start menu, if it has one.
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Depending on the theme used, it can replace or remove shell elements, such as the start menu and taskbar.
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You can change the look of anything from the taskbar, title bars, start menu, progress bars, or control widgets.
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These radio stations can be listened to when driving various vehicles in the game, or at the start menu.
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I study the menu, contemplating such options as organic lentil walnut pâté and wheat-free blue corn croutons.
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He studies the menu, then puts it down with a sigh.
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They crowbar themselves into bars and restaurants - vast seething, sprawling, yowling, brawling families - and spend forever studying the menu with a mixture of shiny-eyed astonishment and slack-jawed bewilderment.
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The secret to getting served quickly at a bar has nothing to do with waving a 10 note, nodding at the bartender or studying the menu.
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If you can't do this, take a deep breath at the eatery and devote three or four minutes to really studying the menu in detail.
The Sun
Fish and chips and sandwiches are served in the main bar, while the restaurant offers more sophisticated dishes from a three-course menu.
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With space for just 20 diners, it has an ice bar and a fixed three-course menu from 41pp (tschuggen.ch).
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He cooked a faultless three-course menu of octopus, stuffed chicken leg and a filo pastry pudding.
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In the evening a bespoke three-course menu will change daily.
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It's a pop-up gourmet veggie restaurant inside a former swimming baths, and offers the cheapest three-course menu in the city — from 5 (stattbad.net).
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Fresh-baked breads, enormous oysters and simply seared fish fresh from the day's catch are typical menu highlights.
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A typical menu might include boiled beef and, of course, apple strudel.
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A typical menu ranges from onion and thyme leaf soup to locally smoked fish and roast duck.
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Look past this, if you can, to a bright and vibrant venue with an open kitchen, a varied menu and room to spread out.
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It's just one thing on a varied menu of gastro-art.
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Unlike some late-night diners it has a varied menu, everything from fruit salads to fry-ups.
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The atmosphere in the stylish dining room had a buzz on my visit, with locals and tourists enjoying the varied menu, which specialises in local produce.
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It contains a 400 seats hall for theatre and concerts, and provides a varied menu of local, national and international performers and stars.
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But there's much more than seafood, including an extensive vegetarian menu featuring feta and spinach parcels with rocket and vine tomato salad.
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There's also a dedicated vegetarian menu.
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Actually, he seemed more interested in the vegetarian menu - seaweed, mushrooms, seaweed, stinging nettles, seaweed.
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The menu favors seafood and offers several tasting menus as well as a vegetarian menu.
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In addition to their regular menu, the company offers a nutritional menu, allergen menu, and vegetarian menu.
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This way a few special offers can be used as the basis for the weekly menu.
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Plan your weekly menu before going to the supermarket - that way you are more likely to buy only what you need.
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Even onions can take a starring role in your weekly menu.
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Check out these delicious, easy recipes to shake up your weekly menu and keep the whole family happy.
The Sun
Submariners work bereft of sunlight and fresh air, relying on repetitive weekly menus to track the passage of time.
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Having exercised so strenuously meant that I could devour the delicious à la carte menu with no qualms.
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Details There are no set menus and the average price of an à la carte menu is about 165 without drinks.
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There's an à la carte menu, as well as daily specials.
The Sun (2012)
The à la carte menu has the same approach, but with a wider choice.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
The à la carte menu is launched four times a year to complement the seasons.
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Chinese: 菜单
Japanese: メニュー
- sob story
- Soc.
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- so-called
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- soccer
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- soccer game
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- sociability
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